News from around Indian Country and other tidbits they don't want you to know. The purpose of this newsletter is to inform and educate. [Feel free to pass around]
Submitted by Stephanie C.
The Shaman call me ‘whitebear’
submitted by Luc Majno
MNN. Sept. 28, 2008. Who will control "Wall Street", which some are now calling "Wail Street"?
by Karakwine & MNN Staff
Mohawk Nation News
submitted by Luc Majno
The RCMP Cover Up Murder, Once Again
by Kevin D. Annett
Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared
submitted by Luc Majno
--Update from Grand River Dec 26/06
--B.C. First Nation can hunt at night: Supreme Court
--Like Weeds in a Garden: Genocide, International Law & Canada's "Indian Problem"
Rally organizer arrested at Caledonia occupation site...Ontario Provincial Police arrested the organizer of a controversial rally yesterday at the site of the ongoing aboriginal occupation in Caledonia.
Survival International is campaigning to end the portrayal of tribal people in the press as ‘primitive’ and ‘Stone Age’. It is supported by prominent journalists at the BBC and elsewhere. Members of the public who see an article using these terms can send an eye catching campaign postcard to the editor concerned.
"Mad Mel and the Maya" – a review of Apocalypto by Earl Shorris, in The Nation magazine, sharply criticizes the film for its racism: "To grasp what a racist act Gibson has committed in the making of his new film, it is necessary to understand the world of the Maya as it exists today. ... Gibson ... may have shattered much of what has been built by indigenous people, historians and linguists in recent years. ... Mel Gibson cast no Maya to work on his project, except in the most minor roles. In casting and producing the film Gibson reinforced a colonialist concept of indigenous people that has long existed in Mexico." READ THE FULL REVIEW
| Fuel assistance program kicks off |
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| Posted: December 11, 2006 |
AKWESASNE, N.Y. – Representatives from several tribes recently joined CITGO Petroleum Corp. officials in Akwesasne to celebrate the relationship that will help heat the homes of thousands of tribal members throughout Indian country this winter. CITGO, a Venezuelan oil company, has expanded its fuel assistance program this year to include 163 tribes. more >>
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--More Than 50 Tribes Convene on Global Warming Impacts, Solutions
--First Nations leader slams Canadian diamond
--B.C., Ottawa, aboriginals to sign two new treaties in three days
Dec 7/06 Update from Grand River...from Hazel
--Native Americans to buy Hard Rock Cafe
--First Native American Astronaut to
Lead Science, Space Studies...
The first U.S. Native American astronaut will lead the university�s Center for Space Studies. John
B. Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2002,
will direct the Center for Space Studies, one of three centers within the National Institute of
Science, Space and Security Studies at UCCS.
�University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
--More Than 50 Tribes Convene on
Global Warming Impacts, Solutions
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Native American fights corporations...For more than thirty years, Carrie Dann, a native Shoshone American, has been fighting the US government for her people's rights to their ancestral land.
Dann accuses the US government of ignoring her case in favour of multi national corporations whose interests she says lie in their bottom lines and not in the environment.
»The Tribes on the New Turf...
Simon Fraser knew little of the first nations west of the Rockies where he was to extend the trade
of the North West Company -- but it was a densely populated and socially complex region.
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A peril that dwelt among the Navajos
Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times...
During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around
the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation.
People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little.
» Update from Grand River Nov 16, 2006...by Hazel
»Update from Grande River...from Hazel, Nov 6, 2005
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